School: The Downs (roll number 8875)

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   What walks with its head down. Ans = A nail in your boot Q As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church wall over steeple and all. A The sun Q Headed like a tumble, tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you won't guess that A A pipe Q What goes away between two woods and returns between two waters. A A man fetching a pail of water. Q What is it that you have and I have not and I that haven't it makes more use if it than you that has it A Your name Q Whats full and holds more. A A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in. Q As I went into a garden of wheat I picked up a thing that any man could eat it was neither fish, flesh or bone and in three weeks it walked alone. Ans = An egg. Mary McCormack By Patrick McCormack Aged 53 years Downs Mullingar Born in and living in the Downs

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Mc Cormack

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   The Downs, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Patrick Mc Cormack

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   53

   Address

   The Downs, Co. Westmeath